GrouchyGrouse

joined 4 years ago
[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 58 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Josh Hawley is what happens when a poor farmer, desperate to be a father, wishes upon a falling star for a son. The star, pitying the poor farmer but lacking any foresight, granted the gift of life to a wilted stalk of racist celery.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Lmao what the fuck

Edit: honecker-interesting

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

If your life is made worse by the system you don't need some nebulous 5 dollar word to articulate it. Look at the price of insulin, dawg. Look at what insulin is. Pay or die!

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a bad line at all. It puts the onus on Israelis to explain why equal rights is bad

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

The Mechanical Turk might have been a fraud but at least the fucker played chess

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Can't wait for him to emerge from another 12 hour snuff film bender muttering about how terrorists deserve to die

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is this weird "malicious overcompliance" from them that you normally see from people who thought they had the answer but are told they are wrong. Ever notice that? I don't know how else to describe it. "Mom please don't put spoons on the table" "oh fine I guess I'll never put spoons on the table time to eat soup with a fork."

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

It's very telling that their literal flesh and blood family ties wither and die on the altar of them continuing to yell online about how the country is ruined because "they" de-sexified the green M&M

These people never even deserved the families they lost.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago

Having a good relationship is next to impossible if you can't love and accept yourself so these dudes are fucked. The right wing indulges emotional immaturity and hostility and a rejection of evidence. Who could have predicted that the side whose premise is most accurately summarized by Ayn Rand's solipsistic response to her own death ("actually I'm not dead the world is dead fuck all y'all!") would suck ass at the basic quid-pro-quo of being a partner.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 30 points 4 days ago

Print this out and use a staple gun to mount this to the forehead of any motherfucker who breathes the words "purity politics" when whining about people who insist that members of this ostensible political party HOLD A FUCKING PARTY LINE.

If they were useless they'd be more helpful. They're actively harmful.

So go biden-supervised you too, Joe

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah I really don't know how to feel about it

It's honestly a topic that could drive me to tinfoil-hatsville

 

I lived to spite that motherfucker. Now what the hell am I gonna do now. Outlive Dubya? Feels kinda hollow ngl.

 

Because they hate curds.

Ba dum tssh

 

Break glass in case you need to feel a little bit of those tankie feels

 

Technically this song is not from Macross but it's a banger and the animation is from the 1984 movie "Macross: Do You Remember Love?" I'll tell you what I do love. All that dang hand drawn animation and the warmth and color it has. This video is a nice bite sized example. Hope y'all like it.

 

I know I'm a bit late to the party so forgive me if anyone has already brought this up. This is the observation that always bothered me the most. I watched tower 2 get hit on live TV. The news anchors were going nuts describing the events like something out of Orson Welles' infamous radio play edition of War of the Worlds. They tried to keep a somber and serious tone but there was an excitement in their voices as they vividly described fire, smoke, and chaos.

Do you remember that brief moment when the media called it the "World Trade Center Attack?" The abbreviation 'WTC' started to take over. You were assumed to already know what it stood for by that time. Get with the program.

Then that, too, started to change. It stopped being about where it happened. It started being about when it happened.

"On this day, September the Eleventh," intones Dan Rather.

September the Eleventh. All the anchors picked it up. It was like every single one of these media ghouls was trying to ape the infamous FDR speech about Pearl Harbor. They'd found juicier meat than some silly radio play about Martians. I was one of those insufferable WWII teens at the time so I heard that little dog whistle. "A day that will live in infamy" was right on the tips of their tongues. They all wanted to say it even though they knew it was corny. But they all wanted to have that moment.

The day wasn't over yet they were memorializing it. It already had an anniversary. September Eleventh.

Eventually it was just 9/11. "Nine-eleven." It was like some advertising hobgoblin had noticed that if you put a 1 next to a 1 it looked like the WTC towers. 9/11. They had long since dropped the 2001 part. Who cares what year it is. You're already supposed to know that part. We already told you. It was 9/11.

Music from The Shining starts to get louder. The twin towers meet in the bathroom of the Overlook Hotel. They start to argue over who the Caretaker is.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

 

I like to keep it positive when it comes to other people. But I can be very hard on myself. I don't know why I do it. I guess I'm depressed. Normally I use humor as a coping mechanism but that's not really working right now.

I haven't really been posting here much lately. I just couldn't get the energy to log on or even have an idea worth sharing. But I do really like this place and I want to share some positive energy because I'm tired of feeling destructive. So, hey, you reading this, I like you. You are valuable. You are worth something to yourself and others. I guess this is kind of an "imposition" because I'm asking you to be happy when I'm not. But it will make me happy to know you are okay. I care about you all. I'm just feeling down and the only thing I ever had that picked me up was other people. I can't do it on my own, despite my stubborness insisting I can. I guess that's why I was always inclined towards socialism; I knew I couldn't go it alone and caring for other people was the only way I could legitimately care about myself. "Rational self interest" and all that jazz.

So, hey, if you're going through something, or you know somebody going through something, you can reply in this thread or DM me. I'm not a licensed therapist or anything like that but maybe it would help if you just typed out a few words, as I am doing right now. Helps keep the thoughts in order.

The internet is the worst place ever created but it's places like Hexbear that somewhat redeem this whole sorry enterprise. I have seen so much care and kindness here. Y'all give me hope. I'm kinda ranting but I just wanted you to know that after 3 years this was the only place I could go to where I could tell my dumb jokes and indulge in serious conversation about theory and politics without bad faith. It's nice! And it's refreshing. Keep doing what you're doing.

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